IBM Offers to Send Laid-Off Staff to Other Countries

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 6, 2009 @10:24AM from the employees-aren't-people dept.

TheAmit writes to tell us that many recently laid off IBM employees have been offered jobs if they will only move somewhere it is cheap to employ them. IBM's new Project Match program offers some financial assistance for moving and immigration help for visas. "However, the move has not gone well with the IBM staff union. Slamming the offer, a union spokesperson said that not only were jobs being shipped overseas, but Big Blue was trying to export the people for peanuts too. He added that at a time of rising unemployment IBM should be looking to keep both the work and the workers in the United States. "

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Re:Slashdot full of socialists and statists? by interkin3tic · 2009-02-06 10:53 · Score: 1, Flamebait

This is the FREE MARKET doing what it does best.

And that means what? I think relatively few people value economic systems more than they value economic sucess. If strict adherence to free market is going to get us into a depression (which it won't, but bear with me) then to hell with free markets comrade. The only reason to be in favor of free markets is because you think it will make more money for everyone/you. And of course you wouldn't be such a capitalist if it was your job on the line.